Did You Nurse Your Baby? If So For How Long?

Nursing is the greatest gift we can give to our children. I actually only nursed my little one for 6 weeks, as she kept falling asleep (we just could not get her to wake up - at all!). But I wanted to give her the full benefits of mother's milk, so I made the decision to pump full time. It worked out well because I could schedule the pumping during her routine naps. For 4 months, I only used a single hand pump - which was great, but my hands were killing me. Then I bought a double electric pump which did the job in no time. I actually kept this up (being tied to the pump) until she was nearly 14 months. She switched to cow's milk with no problem thereafter - and that was that! She is now nearly 5, and knock on wood, she has rarely gotten sick - and I am quite sure it is because of the mother's milk she had. No infections or constipation problems as you have said. We have a second one coming soon . . . and I do hope we can give our son the same benefits. I am going to try to nurse longer if possible, perhaps this time I can be more successful with nursing without having to pump so much early on. And when I do pump, I hope I will be able to pump regularly and as long as I did for my first one (this time I will be busy with my daughter's schedule). Oh yes, I did not enjoy getting that occasional soreness or engorgement, oh my. If anything, it was really difficult scheduling anything outside the house because I was so adamant about pumping at home. Everything was for the sake of pumping, but I'm glad I did it!! Kudos to you and all who have given our children this gift!

i only nursed my son for a month. i have an inverted nipple & he doesn't like it. what i did during that month is just to pump milk using. after that the milk just dried up. fortunately my son is very healthy, though sometimes he gets fever or cough...but it will only last for 2-3 days.

Its a very different and nice feeling when we nurse our kids.... the bonding is a very good experience, I think all the mothers will agree with me... for my first child I was able to nurse only for few months as I didnt have much supply.... hehheeh and for my son I nursed him for nine months and really loved it and was sad when I was no longer able to feed him... its the experience we have only once or twice so must cherish it as much as possible....

Early this year i gave a birth to my baby . Since then i'd been looking after him full time until he was six months old. Now i have to go back to work and my mother-in-law would care for him during my working time. It's a very tiring job to nurse a baby especially when he is sick. I still remembered that when he was three months old one day he got a high fever . We were so nervous and worred about him . Our heart broke when we saw him to be so weak . For looking after a baby you should give a full attention on him otherwise he wouldn't grow up well.

I did nurse my child! I nursed him until he was almost a year. The first few days were tough but I had a lot of friends to support me. It became such a special bonding time with me & my son. My son is almost 9 years old now and he still, to this day, hardly ever gets sick. I believe this is due to the fact that I nursed for so long. It could be a myth, but I personally don't think so. There are pains that are involved in nursing, like when I wanted to go out I had to do so around his feeding schedule, but in my opinion anything worth while has it's hardships. I found nursing rewarding as well! You are doing a great thing!!

hi! True. There's nothing more rewarding than nursing your babies. I have two and I've nursed them for 1year and 2 months both of them. There are times when you surely want to stop 'cause it can be annoying, inconvenient especially when you are in public places. but the feeling of being one with your baby and actually giving her/him a part of yourself is truly INCOMPARABLE. So for wanna be moms out there, i definitely advice you to nurse your baby if you have the chance to do so.

I have two and I nursing them until 9 months or something. It good to nurse your baby long, you know but I dont have enough to feed them until 12 months. however, I am happy what I got so far here